Mouse & Keyboard Shortcuts
Fldigi has a bewildering number of keyboard and mouse shortcuts, some
of which may help make your particular style of operation more
efficient. You do not need to know them all to make effective use
of the program!
- Main window
- Text input fields
Most text fields use a combination of CUA (PC) and Unix-style keybindings. A full list can be found on the FLTK web site.
The received/transmitted text widgets use CUA key bindings with some modifications:
- RX text
This widget is read-only and ignores shortcuts that would modify its contents
- TX text
The transmitted text is also protected, but can be deleted one
character at a time with the Backspace key. A number of additional
shortcuts can be found in the Keyboard Operation section.
- Waterfall display
Most of fldigi's unusual shortcuts are specific to this widget.
Waterfall display - Keyboard
- Shift Left/Right move the b/w marker by 1 Hz
- Ctrl Left/Right move the b/w marker by 10 Hz
Waterfall display - Mouse
- Left click/drag move the b/w marker to, and start decoding at the cursor frequency
- Right click/drag as above, but return to previous position on release
- Middle click toggle AFC
- Ctrl-Left click replay audio history at b/w marker position
- Ctrl-Right click replay at cursor frequency and return on button release
- Ctrl-Middle click copy the frequency under the cursor to
the currently selected (or first) channel in the PSK viewer, and select
the next channel
- Ctrl-mouse wheel change the AFC search width in PSK modes, or the bandwidth in CW and FeldHell
- Shift-Left click/drag same as unmodified left click; no signal search
- Shift-Left click/drag likewise, with a return to the previous frequency when the button is released
- Shift-mouse wheel move the squelch slider
- Waterfall "Store" button
- Left click Add a new item for the current frequency and modem
- Shift-Left click Delete all items
- Middle click Select last item in menu
- Right click Pop up menu
- Left/right click Select item (and switch to that frequency/modem)
- Shift-Left/right click Delete item
- Middle click Update (replace) item
- Digiscope display
- Mouse wheel Change AFC/BW, same as Ctrl-mouse wheel on the waterfall
- Rig control window
There are some shortcuts in addition to those described in the Rig Control section:
- Frequency display
- Left/Right arrow key change the frequency by one 1 Hz
- Up/Down arrow key change the frequency by 10 Hz
- Frequency list
- Shift-Left click delete the line under the cursor
- Middle click replace the line under the cursor with the current frequency/mode/modem
- PSK viewer window
- Besides the bindings mentioned in the Psk Viewer section, there are mouse shortcuts to change the nominal frequency of a viewer channel:
- Middle click copy the current waterfall b/w marker frequency
to the channel under the cursor, overwriting that channel's nominal
frequency
- Right click restore a channel's nominal frequency
- Right click on Clear as above, for all channels